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Initiative of pilots and shipowners for the correct and sure installation of the rope ladders
International Maritime Pilots' Association and International Chamber of Shipping have realized a specific pamphlet
July 26, 2012
The pilots and the shipowners have launch an initiative in order to evidence the necessity that the rope ladders that allow the transfer of the pilot from the pilot's boat to the ship sure and are placed in correct way. The International Maritime Pilots' Association (IMPA) and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has realized a specific pamphlet from the title "Industry Guidance Shipping on Pilot Arrangements Transfer", destined to the companies of navigation and the marine ones, that it is dawned with the last relative modifications to the rope ladders brought to Solas convention for the safeguard of the human life in sea and that they have taken effect 1°th July. The pamphlet, that he is releasable from the websites of IMPA and ICS, is elaborated also with supports from the organizations International Group of P&I Clubs, BIMCO, CLIA, Intercargo, IPTA, Intertanko, OCIMF, SIGTTO, ITF, IFSMA and Nautical Institute.
"Unfortunately - she has emphasized the general secretary of the IMPA, Nick Cutmore - the pilots continue to die as a result of incidents during the boarding or the disembarkation from the ships, and many more are those seriously hurt. We are therefore very pleased of the support that we have received from ICS, so as from other organizations of the field and the unions, in contributing to promote the message to the marine ones and to the societies of navigation on the vital necessity to equip the rope ladders safely in conformity with the SOLAS".
"When the pilots get aboard of the ships - she has found the general secretary of the ICS, Peter Hinchliffe - make in order to help the marine ones during the critical and challenging phases of a travel. He is up to the operators of the ships and their crews to go to any length in order to guarantee safety during the operations of transfer of the pilot, that they involve always a sure degree of risk also when the conditions are good. Some common causes of the incidents still seem to be attributable to defects in the structure of the tarozzi or the cables, or to lacking corrected implantation of the rope ladder to the ship".
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The pilots and the shipowners have launch an initiative in order to evidence the necessity that the rope ladders that allow the transfer of the pilot from the pilot's boat to the ship sure and are placed in correct way. The International Maritime Pilots' Association (IMPA) and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has realized a specific pamphlet from the title "Industry Guidance Shipping on Pilot Arrangements Transfer", destined to the companies of navigation and the marine ones, that it is dawned with the last relative modifications to the rope ladders brought to Solas convention for the safeguard of the human life in sea and that they have taken effect 1°th July. The pamphlet, that he is releasable from the websites of 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
